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Blazin Cajun
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 Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 12:20 pm Post subject: Ideal size of Redfish for Bull Tag |
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In your best judgement what size of Bull Red would you use your Bull Tag for?
Taking the wife out for some fishing and she has yet to tag a bull red....wanted to see what the consensus might be?
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TexGator
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| Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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| No more than a few inches over the limit. Once they get too big they are pretty wormy and not very good to eat. |
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BigSaltsFishing
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| Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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| TexGator wrote: | | No more than a few inches over the limit. Once they get too big they are pretty wormy and not very good to eat. |
TexGator is right. A red pulling more than 30in would not get my tag.
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Central Scrutinizer
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| Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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This is lifted from a fisheries report from 1893. It still applies today.
Even then, they knew that really big red drum were just nasty.
This comes from:
Stevenson, C.H. 1893. Report on the Coast Fisheries of Texas. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries 17:373-420. |
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flounder daddy
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| Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Not only are they wormy and not good eating, but they are usually the breeders making more of those tender slot fish we all love to grill. (or fry in stans case) |
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FIDO
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| Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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I generally don't 
I tagged a 28.5 incher last year, but I can take that one fish per year or leave it. Honestly, I don't like taking the time to write on, tear out, and apply the tag. I'd rather just chunk him back and keep fishing. I mean you could use a solid 7-10 minutes filling that sucker out.
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ltorna1
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| Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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94 lbs 3 oz
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deputydawg
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| Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Central Scrutinizer wrote: | This is lifted from a fisheries report from 1893. It still applies today.
Even then, they knew that really big red drum were just nasty.
This comes from:
Stevenson, C.H. 1893. Report on the Coast Fisheries of Texas. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries 17:373-420. |
That pretty interesting! I like seeing and reading that old stuff.
As far as the original question I don't know. I've caught plenty of big ones but never kept one. |
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O.B.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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I would save it in case the new state records comes in on my line. Unless it's the day before my licence expires then i would keep an oversized red for one of my buddies to cook it. He'll eat any size of red. He has a knack for cooking things and making it taste good.
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piermom
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| Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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personally i used my tag on my first bull (31) I wanted to throw him back but my other half was gun ho on taking it, so its sitting frozen. But it will be wrapped in bacon fairly soon thanks to an awesome recipe i found 
the bigger they are the more they deserve to live. They have lived that long just to get to the "bull" size so they should just keep on livin 
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ziacatcher
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| Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I have only tagged 1oversized red. That was before I started using circle hooks and the big girl engulfed the J-hook. She would not have survived. It was 33". BTW my biggest red to date is 45.5". |
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magadorm
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| Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| 28 1/32" |
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justletmein
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| Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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I always save my tag in case I get one some day that swallows the hook or fails to revive. I'd hate to be in that situation tagless.
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ironmanstan
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I usually don't go past the 33 mark anything over that goes back for seed.
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BigSaltsFishing
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| ziacatcher wrote: | | .... ..... BTW my biggest red to date is 45.5". |
That's a nice bull. My PB is 42" and my brother's is 43" both caught on the same day ... ... Port A SoJet
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